Before age 18 I was doing martial arts and yoga. I had a book called
200 Ways to Get High Without Drugs. So I had not taken any drugs including alcohol.
Alcohol is a drug. A.A. people are called alcoholics. Narcotics Anonymous (N.A.) people are called addicts. If you are both then they do
not call you an addict and an alcoholic. You are simply called an addict.
At age 18 I decided to not take any drugs and that includes medications like aspirin. I have never regretted that decision. Many who took Vioxx do not regret taking it since they are dead. The most celebrated medication in America was known as a cure for heroin addiction and is the best way to lose weight.
It creates no physical addiction like smoking does. You can use it one day and easily go without it the next day. Alcohol does create a physical addiction and withdrawal symptoms include the shakes. This greatest drug ever that created had no physical addiction and was used by the U.S. president, many M.D.s, the Pope and Thomas Edison who invented the electric bulb.
It was the key ingredient in Coca Cola or Coke. It is called
cocaine or coca.